Part 1, 1914] CARDUACEAE : HELENIEAE 77 



2. Baeria leptalea A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. V: 325. 1884. 



Biirrielia leptalea A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 6: 546. 1865. 



Annual, 1.5 dm. or less high, simple-stemmed or with few branches, slender, erect, glabrous 



below but minutely puberulent on peduncles and involucres; leaves nearly filiform, entire; 



peduncles 0.5-4 cm. long; involucre almost turbinate, 3-4 mm. high, its 4-6 bracts oblong 



and rather obtuse; receptacle subulate; ray-flowers 4 or 5, the ligules 3-4 mm. long; anther-tips 



filiform; style-tips ovate, with a subulate appendage; achenes clavate-linear, pale, sparsely 



dotted with minute inflexed hairs; pappus in both ray and disk of 1-3 scabrous awns gradually 



dilated at base. 



Type locality: Santa Lucia Mountains, along the Naciraiento River, California. 

 Distribution: Coast ranges, from Monterey County to Lake County, California. 



3. Baeria debilis Greene; A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. V: 325. 1884. 



Annual, 1-2 dm. high; stems simple to freely branched, weak, sometimes reclining, soft- 

 pubescent throughout; leaves plane, linear or lanceolate, 1-5 mm. wide, entire or rarely with a 

 few minute teeth; peduncles 2-7 cm. long; involucre campanulate, 4-6 mm. high, its 5 or 6 

 bracts rhombic-oblong and broadly acute; receptacle subulate; ray-flowers 6-10, the ligules 2-5 

 mm. long; anther- tips ovate-lanceolate; style-tips ovate, subulate-appendaged ; achenes nearly 

 black, linear-clavate, pubescent with minute appressed hairs; pappus of 3 or 4 ovate awned 

 squamellae about as long as the disk-corollas or sometimes wanting. 



Type locality: Plains of Fresno County, California. 



Distribution: San Joaquin Valley, California, and neighboring slopes of ihe Sierra Nevada. 



4. Baeria macrantha A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 21. 1883. 



Burrielia chrysostoma macrantha A. Gray, in Torr. Pacif. R. R. Rep. 4: 106. 1857. 

 Baeria chrysostoma macrantha A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 196. 1874. 

 Baeria macrantha pauciaristata A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 21. 1883. 

 Lasthenia macrantha Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 205. 1894. 



Biennial or perennial with thickened roots, 1-5 dm. high, simple or branched, rather 

 stout, short-hispid, especially on the leaf-margins and involucres; leaves usually linear and 

 5-10 (or even 20) cm. long, rarely oblong and only 2-6 cm. long, entire, acute or obtuse- pe- 

 duncles 5-20 cm. long; involucre broadly hemispheric, 8-12 mm. high, its munerous bracts 

 broad-ovate and acute; receptacle conic, miuicate; ray-flowers 7-12, the ligules 1-2 cm. 

 long; disk-flowers numerous; achenes clavate, smooth and glabrous or microscopically pubes- 

 cent; pappus none or of 1-4 bristles. (A form from Dillons Beach has very obtuse spatulate 

 leaves 1 cm. wide and peduncles 5 cm. or less long.) 



Type locality: Hills near Point Reyes, California. 

 Distribution: Coast of California north of San Francisco Bay. 



5. Baeria chrysostoma Fisch. & Mey. Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 



2: 29. Ja 1836. 



Burrielia gracilis DC. Prodr. 5: 664. 1836. 



Burrielia tenerrima DC. Prodr. 5: 664. 1836. 



Burrielia longifolia Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 380. 1841. 



Biirrielia hirsiUa Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 381. 1841. 



Burrielia parrijlora Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 7: 381. 1841. 



Burrielia chrysostoma T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 2: 379. 1842. 



Baeria gracilis A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 196. 1874. 



Baeria Palmeri A. Gray, Bot. Calif. 1: 376. 1876. 



Baeria gracilis arislosa A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 21. 1883. 



Baeria gracilis paleacea A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 21. 1883. 



Baeria curia A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 21. 1883. 



Baeria Clevelandii A. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 19: 22. 1883. 



Baeria gracilis tenerrima A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. V: 326. 1884. 



Baeria Palmeri Clementina A. Gray, Syn. Fl. N. Am. ed. 2. 1-: 452. 1886. 



Lasthenia chrysostoma Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 205. 1894. • 



Lasthenia gracilis Greene, Man. Bay Reg. 206. 1894. 



Baeria arislosa Howell, Fl. NW. Am. 1: 354. 1900. 



Baeria chrysostoma gracilis H. M. Hall, Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 1: 170. 1907. 



Annual, low and with simple stems when growing in poor or dry soil, becoming robust, 



profusely branched, and 1-2.5 dm. high under favorable conditions, more or less hirsute or 



